The Complete Works of Shakespere, With Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play...by J. O. Halliwell.

London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, [circa 1870]. 3 vols. 4to, full pebbled black morocco, spine richly stamped in gold with rosettes and flower and acorn motif, 6 raised bands, 5 compartments, title in 2nd, genre in 4th, gilt-ruled covers, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., red and gold patterned endpapers. Comedies: frontis., engraved half-title, [xxxii], 576 pp., 21 engraved plates; Tragedies: frontis., engraved half-title, [4], 496 pp., 31 engraved plates.; Histories: frontis., engraved half-title, 488 pp., 23 engraved plates.

The Halliwell Shakespeare, in a handsome binding, with the binder’s ticket of the nineteeth-century Portland Maine bookbinder F. W. Bailey affixed to the front paste-down of two volumes.

CONDITION: Good, minor wear at extremities, upper edges of hinges on Comedies volume split, but all volumes tight, bright, and very presentable.